Freitag, 9. März 2007

What they said

"All books are divisible into two categories, the books of the hour, and the books of all time." John Ruskin, British philosopher

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Francis Bacon, British philosopher

"Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." Hector Berlioz

"The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not." Thomas Carlyle

"Promises and piecrusts are made to be broken, they say."Jonathan Swift


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